Orbiting 250 miles above the planet, NASA astronaut Anil Menon celebrated his 50th birthday in a way few ever could. He received a special delivery package. After a 51-hour orbital pursuit that began with a stunning predawn launch, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station’s Harmony module on October 15. The … Read more
A hot potato: There’s been an unusual trend lately: despite increasing resistance to building data centers and AI in general, more people are using the technology than ever before. A company CEO highlighted this blatantly hypocritical behavior, suggesting that critics might not be so vocal if they had to choose between shutting down data centers … Read more
When I was growing up, every vision of the future featured flying cars. Elon Musk seems determined to finally make it happen. At a product presentation at a SpaceX rocket development facility in Texas, the billionaire CEO presented a prototype of the long-delayed Tesla Roadster. The event included high-flying stunts, air-pumping cold engines and a … Read more
Artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity AI Inc. is shifting its focus to AI agent security after several high-profile incidents resulted in autonomous systems escaping secure environments and wreaking havoc on third-party websites. The company has developed an AI sandbox called SPACE specifically for isolating AI agents, which is open source as of today, meaning … Read more
In layman’s terms: New data center projects are being built everywhere, with no end in sight. Traditional connections between data centers are becoming increasingly inefficient. That’s why Nvidia and Cisco have developed a new standard that aims to transfer all those terabytes of data as quickly and efficiently as possible. GPU manufacturer Nvidia and network … Read more
A San Francisco-based company has demonstrated that laser-based anti-drone weapons can easily provide air cover for autonomous military logistics vehicles. Aurelius Systems recently mounted its Archimedes autonomous laser weapon on an unmanned American ground vehicle from Rheinmetall at AUSA 2026. Aurelius Systems revealed that by combining powerful directed energy lasers, advanced sensors and AI autonomy, … Read more
A startup called North Cloud Holdings Inc. says it will help companies prevent the costs of cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure from spiraling out of control after raising $60 million in funding today. The Series B round was led by PeakSpan Capital and included numerous other companies including Litquidity Ventures, Companyon Ventures, Alpaca, Gaingels, … Read more
Memtest86+ is a free, open-source, standalone memory tester for x86, x86-64, ARM64 and LoongArch64 architecture computers. It provides a much more thorough memory check than BIOS memory tests. It is also capable of accessing almost all of the computer’s memory without being limited by the memory used by the operating system and not dependent on … Read more
L3Harris Technologies and Skydio are integrating military drones with tactical radio technology to help U.S. forces maintain communications during electronic warfare threats. The partnership combines Skydio’s X10D drone with L3Harris radios and specialized waveforms designed to protect command links in contested environments. The integration could help American troops operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) when adversaries … Read more
Why it matters: Two years after Ubisoft’s The Crew went under, taking 12 million copies with it, the question of whether you own the games you buy has finally reached Congress. A proposed law from Rep. Ritchie Torres is light on details and heavy on obstacles, but it’s the first federal attempt to answer a … Read more